Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Decorating cupcakes with Wilton

Weston, my younger son, has been asking to decorate cupcakes for months. Tonight, thanks to Wilton and the goodies they gave us to play with at Camp Blogaway this past weekend, we decorated.

Wilton was one of the fantastic sponsors at Camp Blogaway, a weekend retreat for food bloggers run by the inimitable Patti Londre (www.worththewhisk.com). Even after two workshops where we decorated cupcakes, brownies and cookies, there were leftovers: dozens of bags of colored icing, gorgeous icing roses and daisies, sprinkles and pearls and sparkly colored sugar. Nancy and Gretchen, the Wilton ladies, didn't want to ship them back to Illinois. So I gratefully took whatever would fit in my car and brought it home to the kids.

I see that Wilton has a "Kosher" food coloring set that comes up in a natural food colors search but it's not clear whether they come from plant origins vs chemical. Any idea if that Kosher set is nature-based? Lots of folks have sensitivity to synthetic food coloring and we try not to use it.

Robyn - I looked on the Wilton site and can't tell whether the colors are natural or synthetic. I've asked Wilton to jump in here - either they'll respond directly or I'll let you know what they tell me. Great question, thanks for asking.